Alan Turing deal. Bashny.Net

In December 1951, Alan Turing met a 19-year-old Arnold Murray. Turing was 39 years old. Professor, honored man, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, the author of outstanding works in several areas of mathematics.
He invited Murray to dinner with enthusiasm told him about his work on artificial intelligence. Proposed to hold together the weekend. Over the weekend, Murray did not appear, but after a chance meeting in January in Turing and John Murray began * condi- tionality connection. Turing wanted to help his friend, to expand his horizons, to educate. At Murray had his own plans. He pulled from his wallet, Thuringia ten pounds, and swore that did not. January 23 apartment Turing was robbed.
Suspicion fell on Murray. Police arrived, fingerprinted. On the advice of his lawyer Turing wrote a letter to Murray, ten mentioned stolen and reported the end of the friendship. Murray appeared at the door of Turing, vehemently justified, threatened to go to the police and the state of the intima. The scandal was over the bed.

Turing was not easy. At night, he quietly put the glass with fingerprints friend and handed the cup to the police. The question - how he got muddled answer. Police detained his friend Murray, who could give him a tip. This friend, Harry, gave testimony that shed light on the nature of the relationship professor of mathematics and working guy.

1952 was a time of anti-Soviet hysteria, the height of the "cold war". In America, political Inquisition acted Senator McCarthy, UK only exposed the "Cambridge Five", working for the KGB. Alan Turing, who had high access to state secrets, was immediately suspended from work. The police gave the course of proceedings on charges of homosexuality (see paragraph 11, the Act of 1885).

March 31, 1952 the court heard the case "against the Crown Turing and Murray." Defender announced the merits of the defendant during the war in the field of cryptography, mathematics and the creation of a computer (only that it was possible to announce that it was not classified), his award from the Queen.

The judge took all this into consideration and made the lightest sentence. Turing was offered a choice - a prison sentence or a course of treatment, the so-called "organo". Turing fans today called this treatment "chemical castration", but most likely this is an exaggeration.

Of course hormones Turing really grown breasts and weakened erg Ktsia. "I was told that after treatment after a while everything returns to normal" - Turing wrote a friend on April 17. Side effect, however, was. Alan Turing was depressed, he turned to the doctor.

Two years later, June 7, 1954 Alan Turing was found dead in his bed. On the bedside table lay a half-eaten apple. Examination showed cyanide poisoning, presumably from an apple that Turing could dip into a toxic solution. Of suicide adopted unconditionally. June 12 he was cremated.

It was known that the deceased loved fairy tale "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", which featured a poisoned apple. Each Turing, Alan confirmed that version two years ago in his article. Remember that the root cause of apple found in the Old Testament as the forbidden fruit of knowledge of good and evil. Did not escape the attention and the fact that the company "Apple" has adopted this symbol bitten.

For me the interesting Turing for his work in mathematical biology, in which he described the Fibonacci structure in plants. His article "The chemical basis of morphogenesis" was published only in 1992. It is considered one of the most fundamental in the new field of research Intelligent Design.